She wasn’t. But she steadied outwardly and leaned into what engineering trained her to do: enumerate, prioritize, act.
“Rollback failed. Migration lock present,” JMAC typed. His message landed with quiet precision: “Abort canary, isolate tasks, bring down the recomposer.” jmac megan mistakes patched
JMAC replied, “We’ll patch. Contain fallout. You OK?” She wasn’t
Megan felt heat rise to her cheeks. The room seemed both too loud and dead quiet — Slack pings, stuck ci jobs, the steady beep of the pager. She typed, “I flipped the flag. My bad. Reverting now.” Migration lock present,” JMAC typed
They launched a small canary cohort. The first users streamed through with no issues. The second cohort began. Traffic spiked a hair higher than Monday’s peak; a rarely used playlist recomposition job kicked in, and the race condition—buried in a cache invalidation path—woke up.